Books like Illegitimate by Jack Woodford

A British aristocrat’s desert escape turns into a forbidden romance when she is kidnapped by a powerful sheik, leading to a passionate struggle for love and independence amid exotic sands.

A wartime romance set in Egypt's Suez Canal Zone, where a young wife tests love amid heat, hardship, and mounting tension.

THEY THOUGHT SHE'D BE EASY. THEY THOUGHT WRONG. It all began with the phone call asking former porn star Angel Dare to do one more movie. Before she knew it, she'd been shot and left for dead in the trunk of a car. But Angel is a survivor. And that means she'll get to the bottom of what's been done to her even if she has to leave a trail of bodies along the way...

An eleven‑year‑old sleuth investigates the threatening letters and phone calls her great‑aunt receives, uncovering a mystery that keeps the whole family on edge.

Shirley Angela, an 18‑year‑old, is forced to care for her dying stepfather—until she meets Jack, and together they hatch a deadly scheme to end his pain and pocket a fortune.

Ethan and Melanie clash in an exotic, lust‑laden romance set against the primitive splendor of the West Indies, where passion and intrigue collide.

Tony Romero rises through San Francisco’s underworld, dominating the prostitution trade, only to find his morals eroded as he climbs the criminal hierarchy.

From homicidal homos to locked-up lesbians, and almost every sexually dangerous combination in between, Queer Pulp: Perverted Passions from the Golden Age of the Paperback is the first complete expose of queer sexuality in mid-twentieth century paperbacks. Compellingly written by historian Susan Stryker, Queer Pulp gives a complete overview of the cultural, political, and economic factors involved in the boom of queer paperbacks. With chapters covering gay, lesbian, transgender, and bisexually oriented books, a lively overview of the genres, and loads of scorching paperback covers, Queer Pulp reveals the complicated and fascinating history of alternative sexual literature and book publishing. Featuring the work of well-known authors such as W. Somerset Maugham and Truman Capote to the low-brow and no-brow scribes who worked under several names, Queer Pulp is the entertaining and informative introduction to these lost, salacious literary genres.